Beef Products, Inc. (BPI), the world's leading producer of lean beef, announced July 14th 2011, that the company is expanding its industry leading food safety program by testing for an additional six pathogenic forms of E. coli.

This first-of-a-kind action is part of the company's "hold and test" quality assurance program through which BPI samples its lean beef prior to sale, holds the lean beef, and tests for the presence of pathogens. Only after determining the test results are negative will beef be sold or used for raw ground beef.